Hyphenated American

After viewing the short film “Our time is up” by Rob Pearlstein, I was able to place the five components of the plot structure diagram as presented in theatre class. The five plot structure is, exposition, inciting event, raising event, climax, and falling action. The exposition is the beginning of the plot, it sets the foundational background of the main character or the story. At the opening of the story, you see a time clock set, an immaculate environment where everything is not just clean…

Chicago Bears vs. Seattle Seahawks Today the National Football League seems to be the hot bed of social issues. Every time I turn on the television another football player has struck again. Our society is run by money, power, and status. One of the monsters and leading powerhouses in our society is none other than the NFL. With all the new and growing inventions in our society, groups of men throwing, catching, running, and hitting are some of the top money makers in the world. Although,…

uses this image to illustrate the tendency of white Americans to match barbarism with the color of the skin. This attitude would determine the treatment reserved for immigrants in America. More precisely,…

Black males today in America have been stereotyped over and over again as being troublesome and uneducated . The stereotypes that have been used are along the lines of, “black men don’t like to work” and “black men always get kicked out of school and end up on the streets”. Those two stereotypes couldn’t be more untrue based off the simple fact that there are more black men in college than there are in prison. As time has gone by we have seen more and more men challenge this stereotypes such as,…

The movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower could be seen just as a story about surviving high school. Charlie, is counting down the days until he graduates. Charlie is an introvert; on the first day of school he had not made any friends. Charlie meets seniors, Sam and Patrick, step-siblings, at a high school football game; they become inseparable. Charlie opens up to his new friends about being hospitalized after his best friend committed suicide the year before. During the school year Charlie…

Education is an essential part of life. Looking at education through race is beneficial because education is not the same for all races. In Jon Spayde’s “Learning in the Key of Life” he talks about what it means to be educated. He asks the question, “What does it mean—and more important, what should it mean—to be educated?” in the beginning of his essay. This connects to Richard Wright’s “The Library Card” because he found a way to get through obstacles to become educated. To be educated…

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in American history that brought forth an “cultural, social, and artistic explosion” (PBS) centered around the African-American neighborhood, and its residence, in New York known as Harlem. Sadly, Harlem currently is becoming more gentrified as the years pass. This is something I noticed on my many visits to New York over the past few years. However, Harlem became famous during this period bringing Iconic establishments still respected today such as the Apollo…

Composition 1 4 October 2015 Compare and Contrast Essay Football of Yesterday and Today The game of football has been around for many generations. People were playing the game of football as early as the late 1800’s. However, it did not become a favorite American pastime until the National Football League (NFL) was established in 1920. However, over the past ninety-five years, the game of football has changed drastically, from the rules to the helmets to the padding used by the players on the…

In order to be an effective Social Worker, I have to understand my past and use my experiences to my advantage. This Critical Autobiography serves to not only help me understand my past but to also understand why I make certain decisions or have certain emotions. Obtaining my Master of Social Work has been an emotional, revealing journey but I am starting to appreciate the process because I can not help others if I can not help myself. Childhood In my culture, children are to be seen and not…

end of the movie, the police murder an African American teenager, who protests against a “racist” pizzeria, and as a result a group of African American citizens retaliate by tearing apart the pizzeria (McGowan 2014). Then the movie ends by quoting two…